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The Data Retention battle continues, with the Police wishing data could be data retained forever, with more info here. Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Tony Negus has said that the proposal to retain telecommunications customer data for up to two years was a compromise made with the Attorney-General's Department, and that the law-enforcement agency would ideally like data to be held indefinitely. There's also a more general article about the Attorney-General's role in all this, thanks CN and JD.
A few people sent word that many top Android apps are only 25c at the moment, to celebrate the 25 billionth download from the Play store.
Speaking of money, schnappy noticed we might have new notes soon.. or not. The project, called Next Generation Bank Note, is more than two years behind schedule and has so far cost $9.3 million, The Australian reports. Designers have been supplied with new portraits of the notes' subjects and asked to capture Australian characteristics with "youthful" and "energetic design qualities", it says.
Here's a blog detailing a power-efficient PC build. What I want for my computers is low power consumption and efficiency. That last term means that I want them to achieve maximal performance while using minimal power, money and space on my desk. To accomplish this, I do not hesitate to solder the most essential parts right off the motherboard to see if that helps in it’s power consumpion.
Power efficiency seems to be less of a concern for a Microsoft datacentre. Redmond's Quincy data center, which houses Bing, Hotmail and other cloud-based servers, had an agreement in place with a Washington state utility containing clauses which imposed penalties for under-consumption of electricity. A $210,000 fine was levied last year, since the facility was well below its power-use target, which prompted Microsoft to deliberately burn $70,000 worth of electricity in three days "in a commercially unproductive manner" to avoid it, according to its own documents.
Gunna spotted Google Street View, underwater.
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